Proverbs - Chapter 5 | American Standard Version

  • 1. My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding:
  • 2. That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge.
  • 3. For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:
  • 4. But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.
  • 5. Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;
  • 6. So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, {cf15i and} she knoweth {cf15i it} not.
  • 7. Now therefore, {cf15i my} sons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.
  • 8. Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;
  • 9. Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;
  • 10. Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors {cf15i be} in the house of an alien,
  • 11. And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
  • 12. And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;
  • 13. Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
  • 14. I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.
  • 15. Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.
  • 16. Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?
  • 17. Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.
  • 18. Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
  • 19. {cf15i As} a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.
  • 20. For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
  • 21. For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.
  • 22. His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
  • 23. He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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